WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO DECEMBER 1976
Find out what all happened April to December 1976

The first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, is unveiled by NASA. (17. September 1976)

In New York, New York, David Berkowitz (aka the "Son of Sam") kills one person and seriously wounds another in the first of a series of attacks. (29. July 1976)

The United States Treasury Department reintroduces the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration. (13. April 1976)

The London to Washington, D.C., Concorde service begins. (24. May 1976)

René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois take power to become the first Quebec government of the 20th century clearly in favor of independence. (15. November 1976)

The Apple I is created. (11. April 1976)

Apple Inc. is formed by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne. (1. April 1976)

The Seveso disaster occurs in Italy. (10. July 1976)

The 1976 Çaldıran-Muradiye earthquake in eastern Turkey kills between 4,000 and 5,000 people. (24. November 1976)

The first electron micrograph of an Ebola viral particle is obtained by Dr. F.A. Murphy, now at U.C. Davis, who was then working at the C.D.C. (13. October 1976)

The ferry George Prince is struck by a ship while crossing the Mississippi River between Destrehan and Luling, Louisiana. Seventy-eight passengers and crew die and only 18 people aboard the ferry survive. (20. October 1976)

Cold War: Soviet air force pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko lands a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate on the island of Hokkaidō in Japan and requests political asylum in the United States; his request is granted. (6. September 1976)

The Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist–Leninist) is founded. (26. December 1976)

A series of earthquakes spreads panic in the city of Thessaloniki, which is evacuated. (8. November 1976)

Japan completes its last reparation to the Philippines for war crimes committed during the imperial Japan's conquest of the country in the Second World War (22. July 1976)

One American and three British mercenaries are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial. (10. July 1976)

The oil tanker MV Argo Merchant runs aground near Nantucket, Massachusetts, causing one of the worst marine oil spills in history. (15. December 1976)

Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PLO and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda. (27. June 1976)

Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from the trolleybus that had fallen into Erevan reservoir. (16. September 1976)

The Angolan court sentences US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial. (28. June 1976)